[Somean] Fwd: Finding "Kisisi": Talk with Perry Gilmore, April 25

[Galey Modan]

Hi everyone,

A reminder that tomorrow Perry Gilmore is giving a talk; info below. She's
a great speaker with wide-ranging interests. I hope some of you will be
able to make it! There's also a student lunch with her at 12:00; there are
still a couple lunch-provided spaces, but everyone is welcome after those
are filled, too -- just no lunch! I'll forward that info in case you
haven't seen it yet, too.

Galey

*Finding "Kisisi": Serendipity, Surprise, and the Accidental Study of Child
Language Invention*
*Dr. Perry Gilmore, University of Arizona*
Thursday, April 25, 2019
*Lunch & Conversation* 11:30am to 1:00pm
TBD (RSVP to patterson.493 at osu.edu by 4/19)

*Lecture* 2:30pm to 4:00pm
Denney 311 (no RSVP required)
Part historic ethnography, part linguistic case study, and part a mother’s
memoir, this serendipitous and accidental study documents a rare case of
child language invention that demonstrates the striking linguistic and
sociolinguistic competencies of young children. In 1975, on a remote
hillside in postcolonial Up-Country Kenya, two five year-old-boys, one
American and one Samburu, met and became inseparable friends for a period
of 15 months. The children’s controversial friendship was created through
and marked by their invention of *Kisisi*, an original Swahili pidgin that
was understood and shared by just the two of them.

The boys’ unique language created a place for their friendship that
transcended the existing language ideologies, marked colonial borders, and
harsh inequities of economics, race and culture that engulfed all aspects
of their daily lives. Though these events took place more than 40 years
ago, their agentive language practices have significant implications for
the study of the global linguistic encounters prevalent in our increasingly
diverse and unequal world.
Perry Gilmore, Ph.D.
<https://osu.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=1f1850891cf5f3741c45b9b3e&id=e608f5cb2f&e=79e67a5341>,
an educational and linguistic anthropologist, is Professor of Language,
Reading and Culture (LRC), and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching
(SLAT) faculty at the University of Arizona. She is also professor emerita
and affiliate faculty of the Alaska Native Language Center at the
University of Alaska Fairbanks. Gilmore is the past President of the
Council on Anthropology and Education (CAE) and the recipient of the CAE
prestigious George and Louise Spindler Award for lifetime achievement in
Anthropology and Education.

*This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Video Ethnography and
Discourse Analysis, the Humanities Institute, the Global Arts & Humanities
Discovery Themes, Dr. David Bloome, and the Departments of Teaching and
Learning, Linguistics, Anthropology, and English. The event is FREE and
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. If you require assistance at this event, message Cassie
at patterson.493 at osu.edu <patterson.493 at osu.edu>. *

*Join Dr. Gilmore for lunch and conversation prior to her lecture. RSVP to
Cassie Patterson at patterson.493 at osu.edu <patterson.493 at osu.edu> by April
19, 2019.*
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